With the order of the captain of the devil brigade was given.

Within a few minutes, the devils and the puppet army crawled out of the barracks covered with gunpowder.

At this time, the shelling continued, and the shells continued to fall into the Niangziguan station.

However, the firepower of 4 mountain guns and 8 mortars was still a little less interesting after all.

If it was the firepower of a mountain artillery regiment, the devil puppet army didn't even have the strength to fight back, let alone drill out of the barracks and try to attack the artillery position.

"Kill the chicken and give it!"

A devil squadron leader, holding a katana, roared in the direction of the artillery position.

The devil and the puppet army suddenly rushed out of the station with their rifles in hand, and rushed towards the artillery position of the new regiment.

There are mountain artillery and mortars in Niangzi Pass, but the number is very small, and it is not yet dawn at this time, not only can you not see the location of the artillery position of the Eighth Route Army, but even the general direction is not clear.

Counterattacking with artillery not only does not achieve results, but also wastes shells in vain.

Although the devil is richer than the national army and the former Eighth Route Army, the shells are not blown by the wind.

To the north of Niangzi Pass is a mountainous terrain, but it is not too steep.

About a squadron of devils and a battalion of puppet soldiers rushed out of Niangzi Pass.

However, the devils and the puppet army only rushed a few hundred meters in the direction of the mountain, and dense gunfire rang out in front of them.

Da Da Da ......

Dense bullets and grenades poured down on the devils and the puppet army, and the devils and puppet soldiers fell off guard.

The devil and the puppet army immediately crawled to dodge, but because the puppet army rushed to the front, almost all of the first wave of deaths were puppet troops.

Although the combat effectiveness of the new regiment of recruits is not so strong, there is no problem at all in fighting the puppet army, after all, it is the regular main force of the Eighth Route Army, and it is commanded by veteran commanders and fighters with rich combat experience.

Although many soldiers are on the battlefield for the first time, they have been training for more than a month and can barely cope with this situation in an orderly manner.

The devils and puppet soldiers hid behind bunkers and shot at the recruits of the new regiment.

At this time, the devil artillery in Niangzi Pass opened fire on the battlefield of the new regiment, and the explosion wave continued to rise, and the recruits began to suffer casualties.

At the same time, the artillery of the new regiment of the training battalion began to shoot at the devils and puppet soldiers who rushed out of the station and fired at the soldiers of the training battalion.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The artillery firepower of the training battalion is stronger than that of the devils, and the strength of the training battalion is much more than that of the devils and the puppet army, and the firepower is also suppressed.

The smoke and shock waves of the explosion continued to rise, and the firepower of the devils and the puppet army was suddenly suppressed, and the casualties continued to increase.

The leader of the devil squadron led the soldiers to support for a while, and when he saw that his side was not the opponent of the Eighth Road, he decisively chose to retreat.

The dense rain of bullets swept over, and in the retreat, another wave of devils and puppet troops were swept to the ground.

Repelling the enemy's first active attack suddenly increased a lot of confidence in the hearts of the soldiers, and the fighters who participated in the big battle for the first time felt a lot less nervous.

"Don't attack!"

"The hygienist immediately rescued the wounded!"

"The rest of the people build trenches on the spot!"

“……”

With the orders of the platoon commanders of each company, the recruits began to get busy in an orderly manner.

Battalion Commander Shi did not rush to attack Niangziguan Station, but stabilized his position first.

On the one hand, the main task of the training battalion is to lure the enemy, and it is not important whether it can capture Niangzi Pass, on the other hand, there are many fortifications, cannon towers and hidden forts in Niangzi Pass.

With the current firepower, if you want to pull out the devil's big bunker and dark bunker, you can only pull the mountain cannon to the front and aim for direct fire.

However, there are still mountain artillery, mortars and grenadiers in Niangzi Pass, and the aiming of mountain artillery is definitely unrealistic.

If you don't kill the devil's cannon tower and bunker, and let the recruits charge and attack the Niangziguan station, it will be a head for the devil.

Therefore, the commander of the Shi battalion did not give the order to charge, but ordered the soldiers to dig trenches and foxholes and other fortifications, and at the same time ordered to continue the shelling of Niangzi Pass.

It's getting dark.

Niangzi Pass, inside a cannon tower, the captain of the devil brigade, Yoshida saw through the telescope on Monday.

In the distance, I saw thousands of people with shovels or hoes, working hard to build civil fortifications.

They were all dressed in earthy gray military uniforms, and even some of the soldiers had large blades behind them, and they used a variety of weapons.

Seeing this scene, Yoshida was furious on Monday:

"Shoot now, blow up those pigs for me!"

The positions constructed by the Eighth Route Army were beyond the range of machine guns and rifles, and they would definitely not be able to be hit with guns.

All ......

The devil's mountain artillery and infantry artillery opened fire, and the shells kept falling near the trenches and exploding.

The recruits of the new regiment began to suffer casualties, but the devil's mountain artillery and infantry artillery combined were only 5, which was not enough compared to the entire army of several thousand people.

As soon as the devil opened fire, the soldiers prostrate and hid in the trenches.

Moreover, the artillery of the training battalion immediately looked for the location of the devil's artillery position and carried out artillery bombardment and counter-suppression.

Soon, one of the devil's infantry guns and one of the infantry guns were blown into scrap metal, and the devil's artillery fell in a pool of blood.

Seeing this, the devil artillery on the rest of the artillery positions hurriedly shifted the artillery positions.

When the shelling of the devils was over, the soldiers began to dig fortifications again.

Yoshida, who saw this scene, had a crooked nose on Monday.

"This group of dirt and eight roads is simply looking for death."

"Call the Yangquan Division Headquarters immediately!"

"Request tactical guidance!"

The strength of the Eighth Route is about one brigade, more than 4,000 people, and there are sufficient weapons and ammunition, and it has an artillery brigade.

Relying on the strength of the Japanese army and the puppet army at Niangzi Pass alone, it will definitely not be able to stop the attack of the Eighth Route Army.

Perhaps, there will be troops of the Eighth Route Army who will come to attack Niangzi Pass in the future.

The current Eighth Route Army is not the previous Eighth Route Army, even if it is an ordinary Eighth Route Army unit, they are all equipped with sufficient ammunition and artillery.

If you can't provoke it, you can only shake people.

"Report to the captain, the phone line has been cut!" The telephone soldier said, grabbing the phone.

"Yaga!" Yoshida scolded angrily on Monday, "Send a telegram to the division headquarters immediately." ”

When a staff officer heard this, he quickly drafted a telegram and handed it to the telegraph soldier to send out.

……

Yang Spring.

Headquarters of the 37th Division of the Japanese Army.

Division Commander An Da Twenty-three had just gotten up and practiced a wave of swordsmanship in the courtyard of the division headquarters.

The current regimental headquarters of the 37th Division is the brigade headquarters of the 4th Brigade of the Japanese Army.

During the so-called Battle of the Hundred Regiments launched by the Eighth Route Army, the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army attacked and occupied Lion's Brain Mountain, and the commander of the Fourth Brigade, Misamu Tsuda, shelled it into a pile of meat sauce.

In that battle, the number of the Fourth Brigade was gone.

At the beginning, it only took a disabled brigade to hold the Zhengtai Railway from Shouyang to Niangziguan, but now it takes a division to barely hold it.

The growth rate of the Eighth Route Army's strength is simply terrifying.

When the Locust Army was strong, the Eighth Route Army could still expand its strength tenfold in a few years.

Now that the locust army in North China cannot organize a decent sweep, and even the territory of the locust army in Shanxi is getting smaller and smaller, Anda Twenty-three is becoming more and more anxious.

If this continues, the Eighth Route Army's major counteroffensive is probably about to begin.

Now I also hope that the North China Front Army Command can mobilize heavy troops to deal with the Eighth Route Army.

Anda Twenty-three had just finished washing his face worriedly, and the communications captain of the 37th Division had a telegram in his hand, and hurriedly ran in, and said with a pause: "Report to the division commander, stationed in Niangzi Guan Yoshida sent an urgent telegram on Monday!" ”

"Give it to me!" Anda Twenty-Three dried his hands and took the telegram from the Captain of Communications and read it.

The communications captain stood aside, waiting for Anda Twenty-Three to give the order.

Such telegrams requesting tactical guidance are generally replied to by the division commander.

Anda Twenty-Three read the telegram, and his eyes flashed sharply.

The content of the telegram was: Niangziguan was attacked by the strength of a brigade of Tubalu, with a strength of about 5,000 people, and an artillery brigade, they intended to besiege us, asking for tactical guidance, and His Majesty the Locust was on board, and the Great Japanese Locust Army was on board.

In terms of the strength of the Eighth Route Army, the devils of Niangziguan falsely reported 1,000.

However, the devil doesn't know how many there are, and anyway, it is impossible for the division headquarters to really know how many there are in the Eighth Route Army.

If the puppet army is asked to report the offensive strength of the Eighth Route Army, I am afraid that it will directly say that tens of thousands of people of the Eighth Route Army are attacking Niangzi Pass.

Knowing that Niangziguan, the most important station of the Zhengtai Railway, had been attacked, and that Tubalu had a lot of troops, Anda Twenty-three immediately shouted:

"Immediately send the first mobile Yangquan detachment and the second mobile detachment of Jingcheng to kill all these annoying earth eight roads!"

In the past six months or so since the Eighth Route Army attacked Taiyuan, the strength and territory of the First Army have deteriorated.

The Eighth Route Army and guerrillas frequently launched attacks on the artillery towers, strongholds, and railways of Zhengtai Road.

Even the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army were equipped with infantry guns and mortars, and it is not surprising that one of the main brigades of the Eighth Route Army was equipped with an artillery brigade.

Anda 231 instantly judged that this was definitely not the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army, if it was really a new regiment.

Not to mention the 4,000 people, even if it is the 2,000 people of the new regiment, they can casually take the 2,000 locust army and the locust alliance army of Niangziguan.

If he were Li Yunlong, he wouldn't even need to send troops at all, he only needed to set up a mountain artillery wing, and more than a dozen rounds of artillery bombardment would blow Niangziguan to pieces.

Moreover, the defense area of the new regiment of the Eighth Route is more than 200 kilometers away from the Zhengtai Railway.

This group of enemies is likely to be the troops of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army in the north.

"Hey!"

Captain Communications quickly turned and left.

Looking at the back of the departing communications captain, Anda Twenty-three walked quickly to the war room, staring at the map on the wall.

Although his tone was very arrogant, he also knew that it was almost impossible to eliminate this Eight Paths.

By the time the two mobile detachments arrived, the Eighth Route Army would have fled, and after the mobile detachment left, the Eighth Route Army would return to attack Niangzi Pass.

Guerrilla warfare of this magnitude was rarely launched by the Eighth Route Army.

Now there are signs that the main force of the Eighth Route Army will attack and harass the Zhengtai Railway in the future, and I am afraid it will become the norm.

The guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army were easy to deal with, but the main forces of the Eighth Route Army were not so easy to deal with.

The locust army is not having a good time!

Anda Twenty-Three had a worried look on his face and a headache.